May 7th Meeting

Our May 7th meeting will feature Erica Dornburg, of the the DoD Standards of Conduct Office and Cheryl Kane Piasecki, of OGE, who will present an overview of the Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) review process.   With most of us beginning to review SF-278 filings for CY 2008 and the deadline for these reports just a week after our May meeting, we can expect this presentation to be timely as well as informative.  Erica will be sharing with us some of the tricks of the trade, common problems confronting the reviewer, new financial instruments that you may encounter in the course of your review, where to obtain information helpful to your review, and best practices from an agency perspective.  Cheryl will address what OGE expects by way of conflicts reviews and technical sufficiency, and will be discussing the basics of process, itself – filing cycles, timely submission to OGE, timely response to requests for additional information, etc.  You won’t want to miss this session. 

 

As usual, we will meet from 12:15-1:30 in the OTS auditorium at 1700 G Street, NW, and, as always, individuals who are on the IEC roster need not pre-register for this meeting.  Ethics officials who are not on our roster but who wish to attend can pre-register by contacting Patrick.Carney@fcc.gov not later than Monday, May 4th.  Those who are neither on the IEC roster nor pre-registered can still be admitted by showing a Government ID to OTS Security personnel.